By Andrew Exon
Infant Massage has found its own niche in the medical industry and it promotes healthy growth of premature and full-term infants. Low birth weight and bone mineralization are both common problems of premature infants that lead to many other related health complications.
Recent studies have found that regular infant massage performed by a [...]

Next week on the Today program they’re doing a piece on premature babies. The following is a letter I’ve sent in:
Dear Today,
My daughter Miss E was born prematurely on the 29th of March this year, at 26 week 3 days gestation–for a premmie those three days make a huge difference–she weighed 426 grams. I had [...]

On my first day of full time, solo parenting I managed to clip the tip off of Miss E’s big toe while trying to trim her toenails—I’ve not touched baby nail clippers since that day. I think that was one of the first times I’d ever really felt like her mother. I’d made, what seemed [...]

In one of my frequent searches of Google I found this article entitled Ambiguous loss of premature birth. It basically says that, while our babies may be a live there is still a grieving process associated with the loss of a healthy pregnancy and a full term baby.

When grief is related to loss of an [...]

I rode the lift to the fifth floor just as I had every day for the first 148 days of my child’s life. This time however, was different. We were going back. Only for a follow up appointment but the squirming, uneasy sensation in my stomach and my sweaty palms didn’t seem to know that.
My [...]

Before Erin was born my husband and I decided that we’d like to teach her to sign. We’d read that children who were taught to sign often speak earlier and have a wider vocabulary than children who were not. Parents also report that children who sign have fewer tantrums then their non-signing siblings. Now that [...]